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I have a simple Arduino program that parses an int from the serial input and opens a solenoid. It works perfectly with the Arduino Serial Monitor (older Arduino, Diecimila with ATmega168).
The goal I have is to send that data to the Arduino from the command prompt. I have already made sure the command prompt com settings are correct by running:
mode com7:9600,n,8,1
However, when I try to send it the integer for it to parse, nothing happens, for example:
ECHO 2 > COM7
I have also tried ECHO '2' > COM7, ECHO "2" > COM7, (ECHO 2) > COM7 and all the other variations I could think of.
EDIT Just to note, I have tried this with the Arduino Serial Monitor, PuTTY, and HyperTerminal. All of these programs communicate with the Arduino just fine, and the solenoids open as expected. I have also tried the below code with Serial.parseInt() instead of Serial.read() and with and without the single quotes around the case numbers. Once again, in all cases it worked with the above three programs, but not with the command prompt.
EDIT Here is the sketch I am working with:
int incoming;
void setup()
{
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(2, OUTPUT);
pinMode(4, OUTPUT);
pinMode(6, OUTPUT);
pinMode(8, OUTPUT);
}
void loop()
{
if (Serial.available > 0)
{
incoming = Serial.read();
switch(incoming)
{
case '1':
digitalWrite(2, HIGH);
delay(2000);
degitalWrite(2, LOW);
break;
case '2':
digitalWrite(4, HIGH);
delay(2000);
degitalWrite(4, LOW);
break;
case '3':
digitalWrite(6, HIGH);
delay(2000);
degitalWrite(6, LOW);
break;
case '4':
digitalWrite(8, HIGH);
delay(2000);
degitalWrite(8, LOW);
break;
}
}
}
Two things come to mind:
Did you try echo 2 > com7: (note the colon)?
The line delimiter in Windows is the two-byte sequence CR/LF. Perhaps the serial monitor uses another one and your Arduino sketch does not understand the CR/LF.
If that does not help you should post the sketch or a SSCCE example.
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Code below physically breaks nucleo boards. 2 so far.
ST links is unable to connect and boards are not detected.
first dead one was xncleo stm32f411re, another one is nucleo stm32f446re.
I'm a complete beginner and that is pretty much my first code.
and 2 boards dead;) The question is why it may happen? or can one reset the board harder that normal jumper reset
int main()
{
RCC->AHB1ENR = (1<<0);
GPIOA->MODER = (1<<5);
while(1)
{
GPIOA->ODR |= (0<<5);
}
}
This is similar to this question ->
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/204996/stm32-st-link-cannot-connect-to-mcu-after-successful-programming
, answer to which helped me to restore the board, however answers to my problem in this thread are also very helpfull.
some pins used for debugging need to have some settings. if you change those settings the debugger cannot connect anymore. you need to set the debugger to connect under reset when the debug pins are in the initial corrct state. stm32 processors cannot be bricked this simple way.
so not listen to the advices that you need to use crappy STM libraries. just only set the pins you use, not the whole port.
Yes, your problem is with the line "RCC->AHB1ENR = (1<<0);". That enables power to GPIOA, but disables power to the other GPIOs (B,C,D,E, and H on the F411), which includes the SWD pins.
Edit:Reseting problem solved here: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/204996/stm32-st-link-cannot-connect-to-mcu-after-successful-programming
the reason problem occured solved below
Ok, it doesn't physically break the board. Needed hard reset - shorting rst and sb11 pins on nucleo stm32f446re. didn't try on xnucleo yet.
User P__J__ got it right in the comment. I'll cite:
just do not assign to the moder. use |= or &= instead – P__J__
Done.
And the fixed code:
int main()
{
RCC->AHB1ENR |= RCC_AHB1ENR_GPIOAEN;
GPIOA->MODER |= GPIO_MODER_MODE5_0;
while(1)
{
GPIOA->ODR |= GPIO_ODR_OD5;
}
}
First off. This is not in any way a class assignment. This is my own personal work and research. I just want to get that out of the way.
I am learning how to use Matlab with various Arduino projects. I am a seasoned Matlab user but I am fairly new to the entire Arduino space.
I am trying to send some numerical data from Matlab (via a GUI) to my Arduino Uno and have the Arduino write it to my micro SC card. This is a temporary step to my larger project. However, there is no need to go into those specifics as they are outside of the scope of my issues.
I am fairly confident that the Matlab code works and the Arduino code is slightly modified from another project I did where I wrote and read random numbers from my micro SD card.
However, as I run the Matlab code, the Arduino blinks as if it is receiving the data but after I check the micro SD card it remains blank.
I am confident that my Arduino is wired correctly to my micro SD card adapter since this remains the same from my prior project.
Therefore, I am sure I am missing something trivial to get it to work.
I have researched several websites on the subject and their method and mine seem to align very well.
I am fairly certain the problem is in the conditional statement:
if (Serial.available() > 0) {
As you will see.
The Matlab code is below:
arduinoCom = serial('COM3', 'BaudRate', 115200);
sendData = 5;
fopen(arduinoCom);
fprintf(arduinoCom,'%i',sendData); %this will send 5 to the arduino
fclose(arduinoCom);
delete(arduinoCom);
The Arduino code is as follows:
#include <SD.h> // load SD library
int chipSelect = 4; // Chip select pin for the MicroSD Card Adapter
int incomingByte = 0; // for incoming serial data.
File SDF; // Serial data received is saved here.
void setup() {
Serial.begin(115200); // start serial connection to print out debug messages and data
pinMode(chipSelect, OUTPUT); // chip select pin must be set to OUTPUT mode
while (!Serial) {
}
}
void loop() {
// Open file, Write data, Close file only when you receive data
if (Serial.available() > 0) {
incomingByte = Serial.read();
SDF = SD.open("SerialDataFile.txt", FILE_WRITE); // open "SerialDataFile.txt" to write data
SDF.println(incomingByte, DEC); // write ASCII-encoded decimal number to file
SDF.close(); // close file
}
}
The expected result would be a file "SerialDataFile.txt" stored on my micro SD card with the value 5.
Thank you for your help!
I am trying to use MATLAB's bluetooth object to connect to my HC-05 (connected to Arduino Uno by Serial) and send it strings ('1','2',etc). However, the issue is that when the data arrives it is in a strange format, and it seems like different inputs from MATLAB can give the same output in the HC05. Here is my problematic output: And here is the code I'm using:
#include <SoftwareSerial.h>
SoftwareSerial mySerial(10, 11); // RX, TX
void setup() {
// put your setup code here, to run once:
Serial.begin(9600);
mySerial.begin(38400);
}
void loop() {
if (mySerial.available()) {
// read the incoming byte:
int c = mySerial.read();
Serial.println(c);
//Serial.println(c);
}
}
I've tried different baud rates for the software serial and switching the TX/RX wires. Also different println formats. The output just always seems odd no matter what format I put it in. Any idea what could be the problem?
I have been trying to write a working program that takes in data from a UDP socket and displays it in an edit control box as you receive the data (My exposure to c++ is also only about a week :P have only done embedded C code before). I have a working program that can send and output data on a button click but I want something that can do it in real time. The aim is scale this up into a larger GUI program that can send control data to hardware and get responses from them.
I have run into various problems including:
The program just not executing my OnReceivefunction (derived from
CAsyncSocket)
Getting the OnReceive function to run on a separate thread so that it can still run after a button has been clicked sending a control packet to the client then waiting for a response in a while loop
Not being able to output the data in the edit box (tried using both CEdit and CString)
ReplaceSel error saying that the type char is incompatible with LPCTSTR
My code is based on this codeproject.com tutorial, being almost exactly what I want but I get the error in 4.
EDIT: the error in 4. disappears when I change it to a TCHAR but then it outputs random chinese characters. The codeproject.com tutorial outputs the correct characters regardless of char or TCHAR declaration. When debugged my code has type wchar_t instead type char like the other code.
Chinese output
In the working program echoBuffer[0] the character sent and displayed was a 1
UINT ReceiveData(LPVOID pParam)
{
CTesterDlg *dlg = (CTesterDlg*)pParam;
AfxSocketInit(NULL);
CSocket echoServer;
// Create socket for sending/receiving datagrams
if (echoServer.Create(12345, SOCK_DGRAM, NULL) == 0)
{
AfxMessageBox(_T("Create() failed"));
}
for (;;)
{ // Run forever
// Client address
SOCKADDR_IN echoClntAddr;
// Set the size of the in-out parameter
int clntAddrLen = sizeof(echoClntAddr);
// Buffer for echo string
char echoBuffer[ECHOMAX];
// Block until receive message from a client
int recvMsgSize = echoServer.ReceiveFrom(echoBuffer, ECHOMAX, (SOCKADDR*)&echoClntAddr, &clntAddrLen, 0);
if (recvMsgSize < 0)
{
AfxMessageBox(_T("RecvFrom() failed"));
}
echoBuffer[recvMsgSize] = '\0';
dlg->m_edit.ReplaceSel(echoBuffer);
dlg->m_edit.ReplaceSel(_T("\r\n"));
}
}
After reading the link that #IInspectable provided about working with strings and checking the settings differences between the two programs it became clear that the issue lay with an incorrect conversion to UNICODE. My program does not require it so I disabled it.
This has cleared up the issue in 4. and provided solutions for 2 and 3.
I also think I know why another instance of my program would not run OnReceivein 1. because that file was not being defined by one that was already being run by the program, but that is now irrelevant.
I am writing an UDP client/server programs in C on linux. The thing is that I must add connection check feature. in linux man pages i found example of udp client with this feature( http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/getaddrinfo.3.html ). It uses write/read functions to check server response. I tried to apply it to my program, and it looks like this:
char *test = "test";
nlen = strlen(test) + 1;
if (write(sock, test, nlen) != nlen) { // socket with the connection
fprintf(stderr, "partial/failed write\n");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
nread = read(sock, buf, nlen);
if (nread == -1) {
perror("Connection");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
the problem is than than i execute program with this bit when server is on, it does nothing except reading input infinite time which it doesn't use too. I tried kill(getpid(), SIGHUP) interrupt, which i found other similar topic here, and shutdown(sock, 1), but nothing seems to work. Could you please tell me a way out how to stop the input read or any other possible option to check if udp server is active?
You should use asynchronous reading.
For this you must use the select() function from "sys/socket.h".
The function monitors the socket descriptor for changes without blocking.
You can find the reference for it here or here or by typing "man select" in your console.
There is an example here for Windows, but its usage is very similar to UNIX.